Like in many other languages, nouns in Russian have gender, which can be "masculine", "feminine" or "neuter".Knowing the gender is sometimes easy: дочь (daugter) is a feminine noun, while отец (father), is masculine. Most of the time, however, there is no logic in the election of gender. For example, the noun стол (table) is masculine.

You can guess the gender of a noun by looking at its ending. Look at the table below to see the endings for each gender: